There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
~ Isaac Asimov
@dgar Closely related quote from Carl Sagan:
"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
~ from Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark" (p. 25):
Some writers and scientists have been ringing the alarm bells for a while now.
